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AUDIENDO ET TERMINANDO

A .Tit or commission to certain persons to appease and punish any insurrection or great riot. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 110.

AURA EPILEPTIC A

In medical jurisprudence. A term used to designate the sensation of a cold vapor frequently experienced by epileptics before the loss of consciousness occurs in an epileptic fit. Aureutz v. Anderson, 3

AVER, N

In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.

AVOUCHER

The calling upon a warrantor of lands to fulfill his undertaking.

AXIOM

In logic. A self-evident truth; an indisputable truth.

ACTIO LE- GIS AQUILIA

An action under the Aquilian law; an action to recover damages for maliciously or injuriously killing or wounding the slave or beast of another, or injuring in any way a thing belonging

ACTION OF BOOK DEBT

A form of action for the recovery of claims, such as are usually evidenced by a book-account; this action is principally used in Vermont and Connecticut. Terrill v. Beecher, 9 Conn. 344;

AD CAMPI PARTEM

For a share of the field or land, for ehampert. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 30,

AD EXITUM

At issue; at the end (of the pleadings.) Steph. PI. 24.

AD RESPONDENDUM

For answering ; to make answer; words used in certain writs employed for bringing a person before the court to make answer in defense in a proceeding. Thus there is a capias

ADEQUATE CARE

Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take uuder similar circumstances to avoid accident; care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co.,

ADJOURN

To put off; defer ; postpone. To postpone action of a convened court or body until another time specified, or indefinitely, the latter being usually called to adjourn sine die. Bispham v.

ADMEASUREMENT OF DOWER

In practice. A remedy which lay for the heir on reaching his majority to rectify an assignment of dower made during his minority, by which the dower- ess had received more than

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